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2) The big game
Author
Language
English
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
4) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
Author
Series
Home Team volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sam Hill and seventeen-year-old PJ discover a scary world of goblins under the earth after one of the creatures escapes through a tunnel in the ground, and when Sam follows it back down, PJ must go underground to rescue him.
14) Garvey's choice
Author
Publisher
Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also obese, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes.
Author
Series
The Red Zone volume 1
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Brian attains his goal of being a starter on the Troy, Ohio, Central High Trojan football team, as was his father, he enjoys new privileges but is exposed to terrible behavior that adults tolerate because "boys will be boys.".
17) Last man out
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Includes an excerpt from the author's book Lone Stars.
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
18) Enemy pie
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that instead it helps make a new friend.
19) Behold! A baby
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A loving father reveals a baby's fantastic feats (smiling, eating a banana, babbling) that cause adults to go insane with joy and wonder. The only audience member who remains unimpressed? His big brother"--
20) Sunny
Author
Series
Track volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion--dancing.
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